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ποταμός

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
ποταμός, -οῦ, ὁ
Greek transliteration: 
potamos
Simplified transliteration: 
potamos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4215
GK Number: 
4532
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
17
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-2a
Gloss: 
river, stream, torrent
Definition: 
a river, stream, Mk. 1:5; Acts 16:13; met. and allegor. Jn. 7:38; Rev. 22:1, 2; a flood, winter torrent, for χειμαρρος ποταμός, Mt. 7:25, 27

Greek-English Concordance for ποταμός

Matthew 3:6 and they were being baptized by him in the river (potamō | ποταμῷ | dat sg masc) Jordan river (potamō | ποταμῷ | dat sg masc) confessing their sins.
Matthew 7:25 When the rain came down, and the waters (potamoi | ποταμοί | nom pl masc) rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.
Matthew 7:27 When the rain came down, and the waters (potamoi | ποταμοί | nom pl masc) rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, it collapsed — and great was its fall!”
Mark 1:5 And were going out to him all the Judean countryside and all Jerusalem all were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan river (potamō | ποταμῷ | dat sg masc), confessing their sins. their
Luke 6:48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on bedrock; when a flood arose, the river (potamos | ποταμός | nom sg masc) broke against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.
Luke 6:49 But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man building a house on the ground without a foundation; when the river (potamos | ποταμός | nom sg masc) burst against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
John 7:38 The one who believes in me, as the scripture says, “Out of his heart will flow rivers (potamoi | ποταμοί | nom pl masc) of living water.’”
Acts 16:13 And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside (potamon | ποταμόν | acc sg masc), where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there.
2 Corinthians 11:26 On my frequent journeys I have been exposed to dangers from rivers (potamōn | ποταμῶν | gen pl masc), dangers from bandits, dangers from my own people, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the countryside, dangers at sea, dangers at the hands of false brothers;
Revelation 8:10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and there fell from heaven a great star, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers (potamōn | ποταμῶν | gen pl masc) and on the springs of water.
Revelation 9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river (potamō | ποταμῷ | dat sg masc) Euphrates.”
Revelation 12:15 Then the serpent spouted water like a river (potamon | ποταμόν | acc sg masc) out of his mouth after the woman to sweep her away by a flood,
Revelation 12:16 but the earth came to the help of the woman; the ground opened up and swallowed the river (potamon | ποταμόν | acc sg masc) that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.
Revelation 16:4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers (potamous | ποταμούς | acc pl masc) and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.
Revelation 16:12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river (potamon | ποταμόν | acc sg masc) Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
Revelation 22:1 Then the angel showed me a river (potamon | ποταμόν | acc sg masc) of living water, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
Revelation 22:2 through the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river (potamou | ποταμοῦ | gen sg masc) was the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And its leaves were for the healing of the nations.